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Fedora 24: libpng15 Security Advisory for Critical NULL Pointer Problem

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recently released OpenSSL security patch mitigates a significant buffer overflow vulnerability in Ubuntu 20.04, reinforcing system security and stability.
* Update to upstream release **1.5.28**

Summary

The libpng15 package provides libpng 1.5, an older version of the libpng.

library for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files.

This version should be used only if you are unable to use the current

version of libpng.

* Update to upstream release **1.5.28**. * Fixes **CVE-2016-10087**.

[ 1 ] Bug #1409617 - CVE-2016-10087 libpng: NULL pointer dereference in png_set_text_2()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409617

su -c 'dnf upgrade libpng15' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.5.28
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries

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